LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 51, 12 January 1877, Page 2

LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

A meeting of the above Boftrd was held on Wednesday evening last, immediately after the close of the Borough \Council. * Present—All the members, with thesexcep- , tion of Mr. Ghadwick. \ _ Mr. Penlington moved that the action taken by the sub-committee in serving + j tices upon persons engaged in building reference to cesspools be confirmed. Mr. Wagstaff said that the Board must insist upon persons removing all nuisances i in the shape of offensive matter from off their premises, and that the Council must be prepared to abate nuisances on public property. He moved—" That the Clerk be instructed to write to tbe local butchers, warning them against throwing offal or other matter over the jetty, or depositing same on beach." Mr. Cullen seconded the motion. The Mayor said that on Tuesday last he noticed a bag of stinking suet and other refuse strewn along the beach. The evening previous he saw a person carrying a bag on his back, and drop it quietly over the jetty. The Council had to pay 2s. 6d. for burying the contents of that bag. He * said that hardly a day passed without some kind of butcher's offal being discovered on the beach. If he had felt inclined to summons the butcher who had ordered the deposit of the offal he would not have much trouble in pointing to the guilty party. On Saturday he noticed a dead pig, on Sunday a fore-quarter of beef, on Tuesday a bag of suet, and Wednesday a dead sheep. He had that day been walking along with Mr. Aylmer and Mr. Fenton, and he could assure the Board that the stench was enough to knock them down. Mr. Watkins said that the stench arising from the suet was unbearable, and the first thing the Board would have to consider was the preventing of butchers hording up offensive offal on their premises. He had no doubt that no one knew better than Mr. Scarbrough where the matter emanate from, and as it was high time that an inspector of nuisances was appointed, he would move at next mefeting that the Board take into consideration the Jfc appointment of such officer. The Board then adjourned.